I have found book A Recursive Vision to be most helpful in understanding GB. GB used concepts of Cybernetics and Systems Theory to seek integration among: The book builds a bridge between the facts of life and behavior and what we know about the nature of pattern and order. Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred.Ĭommunication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry Reviews the books, Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology by Gregory Bateson (see record 1987-98817-000) and Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation by Mary Catherine Bateson (1972).A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind.Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences).Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology.His daughters Mary Catherine Bateson and Nora Bateson have also published books and documentaries about him. Two books by Bateson, widely popular among family therapists, are Steps to an Ecology of Mind and Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. He was married to Margaret Mead, a famous Anthropologist. Although Bateson no longer moved in the circles of mental health, he continued to be viewed as a visionary and many in the field of family therapy continued to follow his work closely. Please check out his books and books about him. 'Nora Bateson presents viewers not only with an intellectually challenging and inspiring work of art, but also with a glimpse of evanescent hope.' Marilyn Wedge. important film.' Rex Weyler - Co-Founder, Greenpeace International. One of the most brilliant man I have read. 'An Ecology of Mind is a spell-binding, lyrical, and very. Steps to an ecology of mind by Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Recursive Vision of Gregory Bateson

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